I am the Walnut

Well, I guess what I thought was my ATT number was just my eligibility number. Now I'm registered now, waiting for my ATT. This whole process feels overly complicated, but what are you going to do? I made a post the other day on Facebook announcing I was done with it. I still have Face Messenge, and I didn't actually delete my account (just the app), so really perhaps I didn't really 'leave'?

My authorization to try number arrived a month ago. I still need to register it and take the stupid license exam. I'm really nervous, and keep putting things off. I hate being so consistent in this regard. I'm attempting to begin in a new routine today, and also pushing on contacting the board to figure or exactly what I need to do this week.

Today saw no further progress. It saw an unnecessary (though mostly delicious) Chinese buffet, a satisfying sequence of "Arrow", " iZombie" and "Supernatural." I'll just have to spend extra time tomorrow. My old classmate Sara facebooked me, telling me I should be receiving my ATT# any day now. I'm not ready. I have to be ready very soon. I feel like I'm in the calm center of hurricane, and that at any moment my peaceful, comfortable routine could turn. I don't want to be caught unprepared, I have to much at stake and too many lives dependent on my success.

Well, yesterday and today I did keep my commitment to myself to study. I went to the Golden Arches both days and did in fact work on my Nclex stuff. Yesterday I felt better because I actually FINISHED a section. Today I got an hour and a half in and realized I would need at least 2 more hours to finish, and I had to get home before that. So it's half done, I just need to finish it tonight.

I finally have managed to get from the circular motion of trying to pass my exit exams for nursing school, and into the larger circular motion of waiting for the authorization to take the actual nursing exam. I should be preparing more. I'm trying something new today: instead of coming directly home after work and watching television with intent to study later I'm going to McDonalds to use WiFi and avoid temptation at home to goof off (of course providing I focus and don't just Google Qualcomm chips and reviews for fantasy devices). My beloved Chromebook is dead (I left it out on the sofa overnight next to a drink, and one of my beloved cats knocked said drink onto the keyboard). Now instead of clacking away on my plastic Samsung device I'm fumbling on the glass of my new LG Glad 10.1 It's not cutting edge by any stretch if the imagination (it can barely stream Netflix and the resolution is paltry), but it's big and bright and has good battery life. I'm c...

I've lost count of the many times I've tried to maintain a blog. I've had several over the years, I think I longest I updated it was about four months. Most of them are introspective diaries with my own unique twist on psychoanalysis mixed with cultural criticism; essentially bs ;-) Will this one be any different? I think so. For one thing I didn't bother trying to conjure up a flowery title that sounds like an Ingmar Bergman film, just my Google+ account name (which honestly has been the most consistent thing in my life up to now). I'm not trying to accomplish anything particularly profound with this latest foray into social media, just gathering together my observations and idle musings. Who knows, maybe some of it will be good (stranger things have happened). So why should anyone care about Inthewalnut? I suppose you shouldn't, anymore than you do anyone else. I'm just a guy with a Chromebook and a borderline unhealthy obsession with Google. I'm a...